Animation

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• rick_randall Member Posts: 298 ✭✭✭

  April 17

  I don't think so, but if there is I'd like to know how to do it. You can have multiple sections while animation is running - but I don't think that's what you're asking.
  

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• john_lopez363 Member Posts: 110 ✭✭

  April 17

  It is possible to animate multiple Mates concurrently with the use of "Relations"... there are limitations to this approach.
  

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• john_lopez363 Member Posts: 110 ✭✭

  April 17

  Following the experimentations that @john_mcclary did some time back, one can achieve much more complex animations. 
  
  Here is an example of animation testing I created awhile ago using McClary's examples.
  
  
  
  

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• john_mcclary Member, Developers Posts: 3,933 PRO

  April 17

  Nice work!

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• john_lopez363 Member Posts: 110 ✭✭

  April 17 edited April 17

  @john_mcclary...  could not have happened without YOUR ground-breaking experiments (and thanks for making that "public" back in 2018-2019)!
  
  Credit goes to you.
  
  

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• john_mcclary Member, Developers Posts: 3,933 PRO

  April 17

  I'm glad my instructions were clear enough that you were able to do that!
  
  You can teach a person to paint, but that doesn't automatically make them an artist. You have done well and created art.
  Take your praise, you've earned it
  
  (Meanwhile, I silently wait in the background for Onshape to release advanced animation tools...)

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• Javier_López_del_Pueyo Member Posts: 74 PRO

  April 18

  What would be the best way to render that animation? I know the actual Render Studio doesn't support animations (soon to come?) and there seemed to be an App called OneRender but it is not listed in the App Store animore.
  
  Any recommendations?

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• john_mcclary Member, Developers Posts: 3,933 PRO

  April 18 edited April 18

  I would doubt we would see an animation render studio, ever, or else many years away...
  
  If you really need a rendered animation, export your model to Blender, and use that to make your animation.
  
  I'm not good with blender so I hired @alnis to make this:
  AEI Over Under Conveyor Animation (youtube.com)
  
  

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• jan_bouwman Member Posts: 13 EDU

  April 19

  I fully agree with @john_lopez363 !

  Last year I made a model of a typical Dutch Windmill, used for demonstrating it's (18 century) construction and inner workings. This model contains some (im)possible animations.

  I made a compilation of these animations in the video below. The final scene shows the handy contraption that makes the impossible possible. I suggest we call this the 'McClary Engine' in honor of its inventor, John McClary. Thanks @john_mcclary !

  And as answer to the OP: 
  

  No, in Onshape a standard animation can only show one chain of interrelated mates at a time.

  However…

  Yes, with a little extra effort (and the McClary Engine) it is possible to play multiple animations simultaneously and even asynchronously.

  Happy animating!

  https://youtu.be/Llsd4rxHDV8?si=8MzuwKggTRR8ylBE

  
  

  
  

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• Ste_Wilson Member Posts: 327 EDU

  April 19

  That's amazing!
  

  https://hwh.stephenteacher.com/txtbook.html

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• john_mcclary Member, Developers Posts: 3,933 PRO

  April 19

  beautiful work @jan_bouwman!
  

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• john_lopez363 Member Posts: 110 ✭✭

  April 19

  jan_bouwman said:
  ....The final scene shows the handy contraption that makes the impossible possible. I suggest we call this the 'McClary Engine' in honor of its inventor, John McClary. Thanks @john_mcclary !....
  
  Love it.... hence forth to be known as the McClary Engine... at least in my vernacular!!!  Also fabulous animation!

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• wayne_sauder Member, csevp Posts: 549 PRO

  April 19 edited April 19

  @jan_bouwman
   Would you consider sharing the document? 
  That looks like an interesting one to explore. Very well done!
  I understand if you don't wish to. 
  
  

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• bryan_lagrange Member, User Group Leader Posts: 824 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 19

  WOW! @jan_bouwman
  

  Bryan Lagrange
  Twitter: @BryanLAGdesign
  
  

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